Download or read book Essays Ecclesiastical Biography, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Sir James Stephen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays Ecclesiastical Biography, Vol. 1 of 2 I had destined my contributions to the Edinburgh Review to that early forgetfulness which, with a very few remarkable exceptions, attends and befits the whole mass of the periodical literature of our age. But it has seemed good to certain American book sellers to publish, with my name, repeated editions of a series of those contributions. I am thus an author in my own despite. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.